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Richard Billings papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-710103
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, reports, memoranda, statements, interviews, news releases, photographs, and newspaper clippings concerning the Garrison investigation of the Kennedy assassination as covered by Richard Billings, reporter for Life Magazine, 1967-1968.

Note: Click on "External Documents" below for a link to the finding aid for the collection.

Dates: 1935-1969

Davidson Black - William Diller Matthew collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-931227
Scope and Contents note The Black-Matthew Collection consists of 19 transcribed letters between Davidson Black and William Diller Matthew, with 1 letter from Black to Herbert M. Evans regarding the above letters, from 1929 to 1932. The letters are arranged in 20 folders and contained in one box.Much of the correspondence between Black and Matthew regards contemporary theories surrounding Java Man, Sinanthropus, and Piltdown man, including Matthew's theores of how climate may have affected early man's...
Dates: 1929-31

Thomas Blake Papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: GTM-0026
Scope and Contents Papers of Thomas Dawes Blake, a public relations specialist who served in the U.S. State Department in the 1940s. It includes typescripts documenting his time working for the U.S. government during World War II, including his role as assistant to Stephen Early, press secretary to Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the reaction to the death of FDR by White House staff. It also includes a file on the Mexico Water Treaty (1945), a file of memoranda to Col. Behn from 1947 (while Blake was employed as...
Dates: 1947 - 1976

John W. Blaney Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-20230821
Scope and Contents The collection consists of the papers, photographs, digital files, and artifacts produced and collected by Ambassador John W. Blaney over the course of his career. These items include official memoranda, performance evaluations, photographs, notebooks and calendars, speaking notes, newspaper clippings, honors, and memorabilia. The collection spans the 1970s to 2024, covering subjects that include: Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, the US/USSR arms control and...
Dates: 1971 - 2023

William P. Blatty Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-730327
Scope and Contents

The collection contains typed manuscripts and galley proofs for novels and screenplays by William P. Blatty. It also contains research materials related to the Exorcist, including letters from Father William S. Bowdern (1968-1975).

Dates: 1953-2010

Robert Woods Bliss collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-761028
Scope and Contents note

Pamphlets, printed documents, transcripts, maps, and newspaper clippings assembled by Robert Woods Bliss. The material pertains chiefly to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, with a number of the documents dealing specifically with Russia. Bliss (1875-1962), career diplomat, was stationed at the American embassy in Paris as secretary and counselor from 1912-1920.

Note: Click on "External Documents" below for a link to the finding aid for the collection.

Dates: 1914-1921

Edward W. Bodnar, SJ Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-120731
Scope and Contents Series I includes only works by Edward Bodnar, whether originally authored by Bodnar or translated by him. The series contains multiple drafts of many of these works, from first draft tentative "sense-translations" to final drafts. The card catalogs included in the series also contain photographs of manuscripts found in many of the archives listed. Series II includes not only copies of Ciriaco manuscripts, but also Bodnar's notes on them organized by archive, then by individual...
Dates: 1960 - 2010

Boggs Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-861226
Scope and Contents The Boggs Family Papers comprise twenty-one letters, two photographs and four pieces of related materials. Eleven of the letters were written by William R. Boggs, and ten of these were to his brother and sister, Maggie and Adam Boggs, while he was in the Union Army from 1863 - 1865. (Note: The William R. Boggs whose letters are in this Collection should not be confused with the Confederate Brigadier General of the same name.) There are two photographs of William Boggs and they appear to date...
Dates: 1863-1923

Margaret Bonds Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-130530
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of hundreds of pages of Margaret Bond's music manuscripts and manuscript fragments, letters and cards from Langston Hughes and others, photographs, programs, and ephemera.

See the External Documents section below for a detailed inventory to the collection.

Dates: 1917-1971, 2020-2025; Majority of material found within 1930s-1970

Booker Prize Collection

 File
Identifier: GTM-20240202
Scope and Contents

Primarily comprised of promotional ephemera related to the Booker Prize (1984, 1989, 1997-1998) and the Russian Booker Prize (1994-1997). Also includes three VHS recordings related to the 1998 Booker Prize (ceremony, discussion, and "shorts").

Dates: 1984, 1997-1998

Booth Family Center Collection of Middle East Manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-760101a
Scope and Contents This collection contains manuscripts written in Persian and Turkish (in Arabic script) as well as a number of Arabic dialects. It is an artificial collection compiled by past archivists of previously donated or purchased Arabic script materials. The texts vary widely in subject matter and include Korans and other religious works; books of history and poetry; and a Kama Sutra. The provenance and dates of acquisition vary from item to item and are noted, when known, at the box level. Note that...
Dates: 1544-1800s

Booth Family Center Philatelic Collection

 Collection — Box: GTM Shared Box 25, Folder: 9
Identifier: GTM-0027
Scope and Contents The collection consists of three philatelic items that were removed from other collections. It includes a United States 1893 Columbian Exposition Issue's 1-dollar stamp (Queen Isabella) on an auction card which was sent from H.R. Harmer to Virginia Murrary Bacon in 1946. The item was purchased by Robert Low Bacon.It also includes a postcard, franked with a United States $1.30 Graf Zeppelin stamp, sent to Robert F. Wagner by O.J. Butler depicting an airship over the...
Dates: 1893 - 1957

Marvin Bordelon Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: GTM-20240220
Scope and Contents Papers of Marvin Joseph Bordelon that document his work for the United States Catholic Conference as Director of the Division of World Peace and Justice (1967-1970) and the Director of the Department of International Affairs (1970-1972). It also documents his work for the American Conference on Religious Movements (1987-1999). Materials include correspondence, reports, articles, organizational records, and biographical materials.See the External Documents section below for a...
Dates: 1967 - 2009; Majority of material found within 1967 - 1997

Eugene G. Boss Collection of Lincolniana

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-560901
Scope and Contents

The Eugene G. Boss Collection of Lincolniana contains ephemera about Abraham Lincoln. The collection includes engravings, prints, letters, photographs, objects, newspaper clippings, and books. The documents focus on Lincoln's political career. Some original letters signed by Lincoln were transferred to the Presidential Autographs collection, a separate manuscripts collection.

Dates: 1787 - 1956; Majority of material found within 1840 - 1900

Botanical Specimens Scrapbook

 Collection — Volume: 39020031368254
Identifier: GTM-0047
Scope and Contents

Scrapbook containing dried botanical specimens, some with identifications and notes on when they were added to the scrapbook. The volume measures 12" x 10.5" x 2.5".

Dates: 1850s-1897

Botanicum Insulense

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-0046
Scope and Contents

Leatherbound manuscript titled Botanicum Insulense, containing 10 handpainted illustrations of plants and insects and over 300 pages handwritten in Latin. Botanicum Insulenses was written by Jean-Baptiste Lestiboudois (1715-1804), a physician and pharmacist, and professor of botany at the University of Lille when this manuscript was made. This copy may have been made by him or by a student the University.

Dates: 18th century

Lloyd Wheaton Bowers papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-741001
Scope and content note The bulk of Bowers' correspondence deals with inquiries pertaining to government positions and appointments, especially relating to the federal judgeship for the Chicago district. Some of the cases discussed in the correspondence are: Barber & Moon Lumber Company Case; New York Harbor Pollution Case; and the Montana lands, Bureau of Insular Affairs, War Department. Bowers' correspondence, of a semi-official nature, encompasses the year 1909-1910. The bulk of the correspondence deals...
Dates: 1909-1910

Helen King Boyer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS257
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Helen King Boyer Collection includes the personal papers of Zachariah T. Miller (1847-1913), who was attached to the 61st Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment under General Carl Schurz during the American Civil War and later practiced homeopathic medicine in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; his daughter Louise Miller Boyer (1890-1976), a noted artist and pioneer screenwriter at Metro Pictures Corporation in the New York City film industry in 1918; his granddaughter Helen King Boyer (b. 1919),...
Dates: 1800 - 2001; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1976

Ray Bradbury Letters

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: GTM-141117
Scope and Contents

A collection, assembled by author Nelson Bond (1908-2006), of 18 typed letters, dated 1949-1996, received from science fiction writer Ray Bradbury (1920-2012). Includes 5 typed letters signed from Nelson Bond, dated 1957 to 1976. Additional items regarding Bradbury sent by Nelson Bond to friend Allen Ahearn (owner, Quill and Brush).

Dates: 1949-1996; Majority of material found in 1949-1974

Anna M. Brady Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS330
Scope and Contents The Anna M. Brady Papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, and photographs that document the career of Anna M. Brady, a Catholic journalist who for many years was the dean of the Vatican press corps, covering synods, papal conclaves, and the Second Vatican Council. There is much about those events and about the Catholic Intercontinental Press. Of note is an extensive run of correspondence of Felix Morlion, O.P. There are also some fine original photographs of Pope Paul VI, Pope John...
Dates: 1938 - 1982

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American Conference on Religious Movements 1
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Appleby, John T. (John Tate), 1907-1974 1
Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971 1
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Ateneo de Zamboanga 1
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Attwood, Peter, 1682-1734 1
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Bader, Franz, 1903-1994 1
Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975 1
Bakman, Patrick 1
Baldwin, Joseph Clark, 1897-1957 1
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Barber, Virgil, 1782-1847 1
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